Alzheimer’s Research UK, the Alzheimer’s Association and Weston Brain Institute join forces to form initiative to fund vital brain disease research

Three leading research funders from the UK and North America have joined forces to launch a new global initiative called MEND, or MEchanisms of cellular death in NeuroDegeneration, with a fund of $1.25m USD (£820,000/$1.56m CDN) for targeted research into brain diseases that cause dementia, such as Alzheimer’s.